1. Even huge oil companies get ___________(s) from the government.  a) abstract  b) rational  c) inhibit  d) allocate  e) subsidy  f) incorporate
2. After the third round of the golf tournament, her ___________ score was 245. a) subsidy  b) incentive  c) abstract  d) incidence  e) aggregate  f) explicit
3. For the introduction to your 120 Seconds, you should provide a(n) ___________ of the novel's plot.  a) aggregate  b) abstract  c) subsidy  d) rational  e) explicit  f) transform
4. Modern automobile paints have a rust-___________(or) mixed in to make the car's finish last longer.  a) allocate  b) abstract  c) motive  d) inhibit  e) explicit  f) incidence
5. At camp, we were each _________(ed) one shirt, one pair of shorts, and a hat.  a) incorporate  b) allocate  c) aggregate  d) enhance  e) acknowledge  f) scope
6. The introduction to your 120 Seconds doesn't have to cover the entire _________ of the novel; just give us the main points.  a) cite  b) rational  c) abstract  d) allocate  e) incentive  f) scope

Workbook Quiz. Open Book. Click Only.

1. Hunting elephants for their ivory began in the 1970's. a) True  b) False
2. Why are people today worried that we will again see great numbers of elephants killed?  a) The demand for ivory has greatly increased.   b) There was a recent loosening of the law banning ivory.   c) Poor people are eating more of them. d) The number of elephants has greatly increased, and now there are almost too many. e) None of the above.
3. The ban on ivory trade didn't really help the elephants like people thought it would. a) True  b) False
4. What was the effect (box 1) for the cause: "Numbers of African elephants were very low"?  a) The demand for ivory went up.  b) The hunters killed the biggest elephants.  c) The elephant population was nearly cut in half.  d) They were put on the endangered species list.  e) None of the above.
5. What was the cause (box 2) for the effect of the increase in numbers of African elephants (box 3)?  a) Putting them on the endangered species list.  b) A law banning the international ivory trade.  c) Tusks were only half the size they used to be.  d) Some African countries objected to the law.  e) None of the above.
6. Why was the ban on ivory trade recently loosened?  a) The number of elephants has increased greatly.  b) Tusks were only half the size they used to be. c) They were put on the endangered species list. d) The demand for ivory went down.  e) Some African countries objected.
7. Which one of these is not used as a signal word/phrase in the passage?  a) as a result  b) led to  c) consequently  d) their objections  e) because
8. "...hunters wanted the biggest tusks they could find"  a) cause  b) effect
9. "...tusks are half the size they were a hundred years ago."  a) cause  b) effect
10. "...the demand for ivory greatly increased."  a) cause  b) effect